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speed was 137 knots. and the question was whether or not we had the lowest speed that the crew achieved. i will tell you that the speed was significantly below 137 knots and we are not talking about a few knots. we still have to corroborate some information. this was a preliminary read. the 137 knots came from the crew conversation about their approach speed. we need to take a closer look at the raw data on the flight data recorder as well as corroborate that with radar and air traffic information to make sure that we have a very precise speed. again, we are not talking about a few knots here or there. we are talking about a significant amount of speed below 137. if i could ask you to raise your hand to be acknowledged and
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identify yourself and your outlet that would make this a lot easier. yes, sir. >> [ inaudible ]. >> the question is, could we provide additional explanation about the stick shaker activation and the go around. what i shared with you was prior to impact there was a stick shaker that activated. this is both an oral and physical cue to the crew that they are approaching a stall. it's called a stick shaker but there is a yoke that the pilots are holding and that yoke vibrates or shakes and it is telling them that a stall is
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approaching. that activated four seconds prior to impact. there was a call out for a go around from one of the crew at 1.5 seconds prior to impact. and the call out is communication between the crew that they want to go around. that means they want to not land but apply power and go around and try to land again. that call came 1.5 seconds before impact. >> yes, ma'am. >> so based on those recordings that you just explained, are you finding preliminary findings pointed to pilot error. >> are we finding pilot error? what i will tell you is that the ntsb conducts very thorough investigations. we will not reach a determination of probable cause
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in the first few days that we are on an accident scene. we want to make sure that we gatherer all of the perishable evidence and the facts. we have just been here for a few hours, not even a full day yet. we have preliminary information but we have a lot more work to do. we need to interview the crews and the first responders. we need to validate the raw data on the flight data recorder as well as on air traffic tapes. we'll be working to do that. >> steve gregory. can you tell us and characterize again at what point did something seem to go wrong? did it seem to go wrong from the data recorderer or from the voice recorder? where did the discrepancy enter first? >> from the information that we have on the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder where did things begin to go wrong and which one occurred first? what we need to do is corroborate the information on
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both the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder to overlay that with the crew's position, their spatial position as they are approaching the run way. there is a lot more work that needs to be done. some of the things we are seeing on the flight data recorder are mirroring some of the things that are going on on the cockpit voice recorder. the command for increased throttles or increased power from the engines, we also are seeing a go around request about the same time. >> yes, ma'am. >> [ inaudible ]. >> the question was about the two fatalities.
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the fatalities did occur yesterday. the question was whether or not we know information about their family members. one of the things we want to do is make sure that we respect those who have lost loved ones in crashes like this. we work very hard to make sure that they have time and they have space for grieving and that they are treated with respect. so i would ask all of you to give them that space. i don't have that information but i will not be sharing with it with the press. it is up to the family members to decide if they want to come forward. >> i would like to know are you looking at the other incident of 777 landing too soon at heathrow and are there similarities between those two? was there a speed problem that you are aware of in that incident.
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>> the question was about a previous event that occurred where there was another haul loss involving a 777 at heathrow a few years ago and whether or not we evaluated that event and identified similarities with this event. in that event there were specific issues identified. those issues had to do with frozen fuel. this aircraft is equipped with pratt and whitney engines. [ inaudible ] we have not identified any specific similarities with that cause of the heathrow event but it is very early in our investigation. >> seems like you are hedging against mechanical. >> the question is, it seems as
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if we are hedging against mechanical failure and what role if any is boeing playing right now. i will tell you everything is on the table right now. it is too early to rule anything out. i would ask you all to make sure you report the facts and make sure that the public is well informed. we will share with you factual information. we will not speculate and will not draw conclusions if we do not have good factual information. we are telling you what we know to be true and what we are going to follow up on. boeing is a party to the ntsb's investigation. this is a 777 aircraft. they have the best intelligence and the best experience with respect to the production and manufacturing, the type design of this aircraft and previous problems. we expect all of the parties to our investigation to cooperate fully. we are having great cooperation
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from all the entities we are working with. in the back. the first question is we identified the nationality of the victims. with would like to mention that that is not something that the ntsb did. that was provided by other entities. the ntsb does not identify victims. we leave that to the experts in the area, the coroner in this case of the county or the medical examiner in other jurisdictions. the ntsb does not do victim i.d. and we did not do it in this case. i expect we will be on scene for at least a week conducting evidence gathering, interviews and creating factual information. if need be we will be here longer. we tell people it takes 12 to 18
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months to complete an investigation. however if we identify any safety issues that we think need immediate attention we have the ability to issue safety recommendations at any time. yes, sir. >> are there cameras on the run ways and are they always recording? have you seen that footage? >> i will defer to the airport officials. we have requests any footage recorded on the airport that would record the accident sequence or the after math of the accident. we found in past investigations that the video footage whether it is surveillance or security video or whether it is video provided by the public can be very helpful. and along those lines we do have an opportunity for if anybody has any photos or video that
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they believe would be helpful to our investigators that they can submit that, that information can be submitted if you go to our website ntsb.gov. on the left-hand side you will see information about eyewitness reports. you can click on that link and submit information, videos or photos or e-mail it to eyewitness report. we very much appreciate that information. >> you have been listening to a press conference by the national transportation safety board. they have been updating us on the latest developments of their investigation of yesterday's plane crash. i am going to bring in jay raulens for analysis. also joining us greg fife former ntsb investigator. in my read it is a couple of points that i listen to.
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it sounded like there was this issue of the 137 knots that you heard, the crew were talking about. but then the administrator made a point to say the flight data recorder showed it was much slower. that seems to support what we had heard that they came in slow and low. but it also sounds like the pilots did not realize that they were too slow. >> i'm devastated to hear what this ntsb spokesperson is telling us because what she has said is that the crew had the power at idle and apparently never brought the power back up as the speed approached. if you do that in an airliner with the lander gear down and flaps at full it will slow down very quickly. if you don't get the power coming up you will quickly go
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below a safe flying speed because a jet engine takes time to wind up and give you the power that you need. and so it's a devastating thing to hear that an experienced pilot and crew would allow that to happen if that is the case. >> greg, i am wondering what you heard of the remarks here, what struck out to you. again, it is one of the key things i feel like i heard this idea that sounded as though the crew maybe did not realize until it was too late that they were actually in trouble or going too slow. >> listening to what jim just said let me play on that a little more. that is that while it is devastating to hear that a professional crew wouldn't push the power up, we don't know whether they were using auto throttles or not. if they set a particular target speed of 137 knots which is
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their landing speed and they failed to engage the auto throttles but they believe they had done it and the power didn't come up, they were monitoring and having an expectation that the auto throttles would put power in to maintain speed. when it didn't happen they had to realize something is wrong. i now have to take manual control and do something. then, again, that is the problem where they didn't perceive any kind of problem until the problem manifested itself about seven seconds out. by the time they took corrective action gravity took over and it was really too late for them to recover. >> so, are you suggesting that it is possible that the pilots did not realize they were going too slow. they thought they were at one speed but they were actually at a different one? is that what you are suggesting? >> there is a multitude of probability. that is why the safety board will dissect the cvr to see how
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the airplane was configured and see if the automation was being used by the crew. typically the pilots will set the airplane up with an auto throttle and in anticipation of the speed the automated system tries to maintain it. the crew didn't monitor and notice it until the last minute. that puts them behind the power curve. by the time they try to take the corrective action and push the power to full power for the go around by the time the engines started to spool up the airplane was settling to the ground. >> another question here that i think was raised. we learned today or at the end of the day yesterday that the guide path technology was not operational at sfo. the folks from sfo seem to suggest that that in no way shape or form should have played a role in what happened.
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mention about required systems. based on what you heard from the ntsb is there any suggestion that those systems could have helped prevent this if they would have been functional? >> i don't get the impression that the glide slope was the problem. it was a visual approach and pilots are trained to dot that without reference to the glide path. but i am concerned about the power being at idle whether thet auto throttles were engaged because the pilot is supposed to keep hands on the throttles for that reason and he is watching the speed decrease. as the speed decreases he starts to push the throttles forward whether the auto throttles do it or not. >> what does that tell you? >> i don't like to look back and
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quarterback what a captain has done or the co pilot. i can tell you that that is very unprofessional to not be in a position to control that aircraft regardless of what the auto pilot is doing. if the plane is not doing what the pilot wants he clicks all of that off and he hand flies that aircraft. >> does that suggest a question to you, then, why that would not have happened? >>. >> possibly inattentiveness. perhaps they were very tired from a ten hour flight and got distracted. maybe something else went on. >> thank you for your time today. msnbc will continue to follow this story and bring you the latest developments out of san francisco. for now, join the ed show already in progress at the
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welcome back to "the ed show" here in new orleans. in today's "rapid response ,"we begin with friday's job numbers. employers are becoming, i would say, a little bit more confident about the economy. i mean how do you really argue with the numbers? according to the latest report, we have added 195,000 jobs in the last month keeping the unemployment rate steady at 7.6%. there were some who said it would never go below 9. this is good news for the president. it's good news for the democrats. it's good news for the country and even better news, revisions show that the numbers in april and in may were better than were originally reported. now, what we have seen is 40 months, 4-0, 40 months of consecutive job growth in the private sector while president obama has been constantly vilified by conservatives about
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he doesn't know anything about the private sector or helping businesses out. the key here is that there has been no help, no coordination, no cooperation with republicans in any of this economic run to bring us out of what we were involved in. now, republicans have been busy. what are they doing? they're wasting america's time and money and focus by going after anti-abortion legislation and repealing obama care, which simply is not going to happen. but it's a hell of a headline if you're writing. there could be a lot more positive growth if congress would take their responsibility as seriously as they pick up their paychecks. for more let's turn to our panel, joy reid and dr. james peterson. great to have both of you here. what do these numbers mean? what do 40 months mean? >> if this were a normal recession, ed, what you would have had, that deep decline, 750,000 jobs.
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in a normal recession you would pump incredible amounts of federal money at that because what you have to do, you see the demand in the private sector is withdrawn, something has to fill it. if the consumer doesn't fill it, typically that's what the government does, and that's what you saw t.a.r.p., et cetera, do. we started to withdraw that stimulus as soon as republicans overtook the house and halt the stimulus, so you've seen this steep dropoff. the first recession in the history of this country where public sector employment declined -- >> in federal jobs. >> in federal jobs. what we initially did help the states keep their teachers, keep their nurses, keep their firefighters on the job. that's what stopped us from going into a depression, but at the federal level congress keeps putting pressure to reduce and reduce and reduce federal employment disproportionately hurts the economy, women, et cetera. >> james, what kind of economic record could any republican candidate put forward in front of americans? >> what they put forward to
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their base is that we're starving government. remember, that's what they want to do. you can see that at the state level. all the republican executives of different states are doing like our economy. i think we shed 5,000 jobs at the federal level, so while we're growing the private sector consistently for 40 months, great for the economy, imagine how much more robust it would be if we had cooperation especially at the federal level. >> would another stimulus package change things? >> if listen -- >> the president talks about infrastructure. >> absolutely, right. >> if we were being rational about the economy right now, what we would be doing is looking at the fact we have bridges literally collapsing. we have roads impassable. we have an infrastructure problem that in the eisenhower era would have been addressed by building a massive highway program that would give people jobs. >> i want to tie this into our next topic because here in the city of new orleans, unemployment is higher than expect. more than half of working age african-american men in this
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city were unemployed according to the most recent census. now, this is a dramatic increase in unemployment over the past 30 years. but we should point out over the last 30 years it was not the starvation of government or the starvation of infrastructure projects. the mayor of new orleans recently released a five-year plan by helping to attract better paying jobs in the city which calls for workforce training and support programs for small businesses. back to the panel, the both of you on this, is there any program in an inner city that would turn the unemployment numbers around? i mean, how would you do that on a state level or a local level? i mean i have some ideas on it. >> absolutely. well -- >> you'd have to earmark a sales tax. that's what i would do. a quarter-cent sales tax on municipalities that would be earmark money for jobs programs. that's just me talking. it would have to be done on a local level. your thoughts. >> remember, even the jobs growth that we're seeing right now are jobs in hospitality and
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service sectors, which is not high paying jobs. if you complement that with public works jobs, the kind of jobs joy's talking about, they could stand to use an infusion of infrastructure, federal dollars to help rebuild what has been destroyed and not repaired since katrina. >> why do you think the numbers among african men in this city are higher? >> let's look quickly nationally. white unemployment, white male unemployment, 6.2%. white female, 6%. african-american female, 12%. black male unemployment, 16%. 16 to 19-year-olds, 43% for african-americans and in the city of new orleans exceptionally high. look where we are right now. in a building named for morial's father because he brought this convention center to new orleans and the idea it brought the jobs with it, all the people that had to construct, that helps younger workers, and we do also have a deficit.
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we don't have young people able to do the jobs we're outsourcing to india. we need to be training young people starting in high school to do stem jobs, research and science. >> in that last segment -- well, there you go. [ applause ] in the last segment we were talking about the outsourcing of the jobs. we should point out that 60% decline in manufacturing jobs in this city >> that's right. >> when you talk about an industrial revolution, the best place to do it is where there's people who are willing to work. >> exactly. >> but when you have capital, which is hard to get, and minorities can't get the capital. >> that's right. >> because they don't have the resources to back them up if business doesn't go well, what else can we do other than some kind of public/private partnership involved with federal money to turn these numbers around? >> i think it has got to start there, but also long-term we have to level the playing field in terms of corporations. a lot of reasons you see the outsourcing of manufacturing jobs, we allow corporations to give tax breaks to outsource those jobs so need to incentivizze them to hire american workers here.
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>> the democrats had a proposal on the table, reward companies for bringing jobs back, and they voted it down. >> i was just going to say that and the president had that too. what they wanted to do was an insourcing credit. essentially if you instead of outsourcing manufacturing jobs to india or mexico or to somewhere else, if you do it with americans who want to work looking for jobs, then we would give you a tax credit. republicans don't want to do that. >> both of you are great. great to have you with us. always excellent insight. joy reid, james peterson. the crowd here at the essence festival has a lot to say on this topic, and we'll hear from them. coming up next, the latest on the crash of asiana flight 214. stay tuned. stay with us. i have low testosterone. there, i said it. see, i knew testosterone could affect sex drive, but not energy or even my mood. that's when i talked with my doctor. he gave me some blood tests... showed it was low t. that's it. it was a number.
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city, which is fantastic, and we'll talk some more with the folks here in just a moment, but first we are going to get the latest details on the deadly plane crash in san francisco last night. nbc's john yang joins us live with the latest. john, what do we know? >> reporter: ed, we know that the ntsb go team has been working all night working through the night continuing to work today looking at that burned out fuselage that's broken apart that's what's left of asiana flight 214. they've got the black boxes now back in washington. they flew them there overnight. they're going to be looking and analyzing the data in there, the performance of the plane, listen to the cockpit conversations, to what the pilots were saying when this all was happening, essentially trying to find out what happened, why this plane came in essentially too slow, too low, the tail hitting the seawall separating the san francisco bay from the airport and the runway and then slamming
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onto the runway and skidding down and lost the tail assembly, it lost landing gear before skidding off the runway. we also know this morning that the two victims, the two people killed in this crash are 16-year-old girls from china. they were part of one of two school groups from chinese middle schools who were coming here for summer camp, which included visits to some of the college campuses here in the northern california area. meanwhile, more than about four dozen passengers are still in the hospital with injuries to varying degrees. we know at least five of them are in critical condition, one of them an infant. ed? >> john yang reporting from san francisco here on "the ed show." thanks so much. stick around. we'll have more from the essence festival after this. you're watching "the ed show" on msnbc. [ cheers and applause ] mine was earned in djibouti, africa. 2004.
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welcome back. we're coming to you live from the essence festival here in new orleans, louisiana. we have talked a lot on this show about jobs, infrastructure, investment, tight credit, access to capital, helping small businesses, all of the things that will help the little folk of america do better in our economy, but with all of this obstruction and all of this focus trying to make sure that president obama is a failure, the question comes up, what's the plan? now, we had a stimulus package. there were only three republicans who ended out helping in 2009. we had the recovery of the automobile industry, which people on the conservative side were ready to say, let's leave it for dead. we've seen a reinvestment in education. we've seen a priority list from the president. we've seen 40 months of private sector job growth, but still
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unemployment among minorities in this country is very high. i say it's all about access to capital. i say the american dream is being robbed by a lot of people because of the concentration of wealth in this country. and what we try to do on this program is focus on the folks, on the people, what they say. where is their pulse for america right now? do they not have the spirit to want to do better? do they want to be run out of their homes by big banks who get all the money so cheap from the fed? i mean it was just a story last week, we have decided to raise interest rates on students, in fact, we've decided to double them while the congress goes home on vacation. we're turning to the young people of america saying, you know what, you're not paying enough. we need to raise the rates on you. this is what's frustrating all americans. it is a lack of fairness. now, on this program i have shown time and time again what i
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call the vulture chart where you see the middle class wages in this country have been depressed for 30 years, and i think it's in relationship to the attack on labor where you have seen corporate profits go through the roof. where are those profits going? they're not going to the folks. they're not going to the workers as they depress wages and attack workers' rights. what do we have? we're seeing what john edwards said a long time ago, two americas. now, how do we turn it around? the first thing we have to do is get a congress aware that it's not about them, that it is about the people, and the people do care, and the people are going to react, but, wait a minute, maybe the republicans know that and now they're attacking not only voices in the workplace, they're attacking voter rights. they're going after their voices at the polls. they're going to make it harder for the poor, they're going to
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make it harder for the small people in the rural areas to have access to show their voice and vote. so there is this systematic approach by the wealth of the country to keep it just the way it is. now, if you're a conservative, the world is pretty good. corporate profits are where we want them. we're depressing voting rights. we've got minorities right where we want them. we're not investing in our communities. we're not investing in bridges. i do think we have a few bridges in this country that could probably have a do-over, but we can't do that. we got to make sure that we give more money to the wealthiest americans. that's what mitt romney ran on. well, mitt romney was defeated so their plan now to defeat president obama and stop everything. i will make the case to you that is not where america is, that these folks care about their communities, they care about their schools, they care about the future, and they care about
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what kind of country they're going to leave their kids >> that's right. >> but maybe i'm wrong. let's hear from them. your thoughts on what is going on in america right now. what do we have to do to continue the economic growth? what's your name? >> my name is kim joiner-shuler. >> where are you from? >> from austin, texas. >> oh, you got a lot going on down in austin, texas, as of late. >> yeah, it's been historical in the last couple of weeks with the voter and then the -- what's the -- >> attack on women's right. >> attacks on women's rights, and we really have to worry about getting rick perry out of office so -- >> what does america need right now? >> structure. we need to put people back to work. we need to decrease the student loan. the student loan hike is a disgrace, and we need to make sure that we extend the voters right for all minorities. i know that president bush
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extended it before he left office, but we need to make it a mandate. there shouldn't be an expiration date on voting. >> do you agree with that, folks? [cheers and applause] >> your name? >> misty mosely from east st. louis illinois. >> east st. louis, illinois. >> yes. >> well, tell me about your america. what do you think? what has to happen? >> i believe we need more jobs and especially in the minority areas where we're really suffering. i also believe we need more structure. i believe politics plays a huge role in it, and they're very selfish and for themselves instead of the communities, and it's all about the people of america where the focus should be, and we really need to get back to that so that everyone can be stable and provide for their families.
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>> great. great to have you with us. your name? >> mica hughes. >> from where? >> east st. louis, illinois. >> your thoughts on america. what do we need? >> we need basically what everyone is staying, we need structure. we need politics to get out of a lot of the things that we're doing, and we need to be able to provide for our families and our children and leave them with a legacy that our parents were trying in the '60s trying to leave us with, so we need to really get it together as far as, you know, the president, they need to have his back, you know. and, unfortunately, we might need to get those republicans out of office, so hopefully we'll have more democrats in there to help him get through. >> now, i want to point out that these are three ladies at this essence festival here in new orleans. did tell you i was going to talk to you? no. did i tell you i was going to talk to you? no. did i just put the microphone in front of you? you heard three women articulate
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what their vision for america is and what they'd like to see happen just right off the cuff. shouldn't that be somewhat of a message to a lawmaker that since you're picking up the paycheck in washington, maybe you have a responsibility to these people who have a mind, who have a heart, who have a soul, who have some concerns about where we're going? but all it is is obstruction. now, i'm frustrated because washington's doing nothing. i want my money back. >> all: yeah! >> i want my money back. i mean, i'm here working. they're paying me for working? that's right. >> well, where's the congress? you're holding a young child here. your name? >> dana christian. >> hi, dana. how are you? >> well, thank you. >> where are you from? >> new orleans. >> you are holding the future. >> i am holding the future. >> your baby.
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>> that's my son colt and son bryce and husband and mother sylvia. >> you have the whole family here. what do you think of the festival? >> great, and the message you're bringing and so many of our constituents from msnbc is so very important. i work in education and the politics in business that is destroying public education, i think a part of the problem of what is happening in this economy. i think in new orleans in particular we're not preparing, not just here but all over this country, we're not preparing our kids for 21st century jobs in the future, stem jobs. everyone has this path, and we want our kids to go to college, but the reality is not every kid is going to go to college, so what are the opportunities and choices we're providing to them? we have to create better choices. we're creating citizens to be able to participate in the democratic process, and what does that look like in the education system today and particularly with the agenda of these republican governors. >> you are fantastic. thank you so much. god bless you.
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all the blessings to you and your family. >> thank you. thank you so much. i love all of you. this is the essence festival in new orleans. there's a lot more coming up on "the ed show." stay with us. we're right back. want younger looking eyes that say wow? with olay, here's how. new regenerist eye and lash duo. the cream smooths the look of lids... softens the look of lines. the serum instantly thickens the look of lashes. see wow! eyes in just one week with olay. see wow! eyes in just one week i save time, money,st, and i avoid frustration. you'll find reviews on home repair to healthcare, written by people just like you. find out why more than two million members count on angie's list. angie's list -- reviews you can trust. happy birthday! it's a painting easel! the tide's coming in!
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okay, make me proud. ♪ now walk it by yourself do the cupid shuffle ♪ >> come on now. ♪ let me see you do the ♪ the cupid shuffle
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>> hey, this isn't so bad. >> they finally got it. i'm so proud. they're ready for anaheim. >> whoo! [ applause ] >> the video of the irs members dancing to "the cupid shuffle" was the talk of washington for weeks. in fact, congress actually spent time and effort scrutinizing an awkward dance video? cupid, the man behind the original shuffle, isn't getting enough credit. his moves made serious waves across congress and youtube alike. so let's see what the fuss is all about. cupid! >> hey. >> great to have you with us. >> thank you, thank you. [ cheers and applause ] >> from lafayette, louisiana. >> yes, sir. >> what did you think when you saw the video, your shuffle making it cool? >> well, i wish i could have kind of went and showed them before, because i saw somebody had a brace, looked like somebody got injured. >> show us how you came up with it. >> okay. ♪ to the right, to the right, to the right, to the right. ♪ to the left to the left to the
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left to the left ♪ ♪ now kick now kick now kick now kick ♪ ♪ now walk it by yourself now walk it by yourself ♪ >> i like it. ♪ to the left to the left ♪ now dig now dig now >> we have got asean johnson from chicago. he is a dancing machine! ♪ down down do your dance >> left, left, now, kick, kick, kick, walk it off. come on. walk, walk, keep moving. come on. ♪ right, right ♪ to the left ♪ do your dance do your dance >> now kick, kick, kick, kick, walk it out. hey, hey, walk it out. to the right. ♪ to the right to the right to the right ♪ ♪ to the left to the left to the left ♪ ♪ now kick ♪ now kick now walk it by yourself now walk it by yourself ♪ >> oh, we've got another
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contestant here. ♪ to the right to the right >> here we have joy reid. all right. joy, let's go. here we go. ♪ now walk it by yourself >> to the right, the right, the right, the right, the left, the left, the left, the left. kick, kick, i love that she joined. walk it by yourself. walk it by yourself. ♪ down, down do your dance do your dance down, down do your dance do your dance ♪ down down do your dance ♪ ♪ down down do your dance ♪ down down do your dance >> to the left. >> cupid got it going. he's got it going. ♪ down down do your dance >> walk it out. ♪ down down do your dance >> to the right to the right to the right, to the right. to the left, to the left.
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now kick four times. now kick. kick. now walk it by yourself. walk it by yourself. ♪ to the right to the right to the right, the right, the right ♪ ♪ to the left, to the left, to the left, left, left ♪ >> come on, let's hear it for cupid. ♪ walk it by yourself >> how's life? >> it's good. we just put you on television dancing. ♪ >> how did you come up with the shuffle? >> it felt good. i want to give a shoutout to my grandmother. that's her favorite move to the right to the left. >> she watch "the ed show"? >> yes, she's tuned in. >> let's go. let's go. but when you came up with it, and i mean it's a simple move but it's just a happy move. it's something that like everybody can with a little bit of practice can get it done. >> yes, you know the type of music i make is feel-good music so we wanted to make sure the song felt good and when we
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recorded it, it felt good. >> what kind of response you get from young folks from around the country on it? >> everywhere i go, i say, hi, my name is cupid. they say what? "cupid shuffle." oh, okay. >> "cupid shuffle." you got the irs folks doing it. must be really good. >> yeah, yeah, yeah. >> now, how about this little guy right here? he's got it. asean, the pressure is on, brother. let's go. >> five, six, seven. to the right, to the right. oh. ♪ to the left, and do your dance do your dance ♪ >> go, go, go, go. go, go, go. ♪ down down do your dance do your dance ♪ ♪ down down do your dance >> all right. cupid. >> i can't top that. i cannot top that. >> joy reid, commentary, what do you think? >> i have to say i love the "cupid shuffle." it has to be done at every party. it isn't a party until you do
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"the cupid shuffle." asean might have invented something else. but that was hot. you have to admit. right, right? >> it was hot. it was hot. >> and yours wasn't bad either. i got to tell you, ed, i'm impressed with your dance moves. >> i got to drop 20 and then i'll be right. >> amen, but it was all good. it was good with the 20. i enjoyed it. >> do some aerobics, you'll be all right. >> we're wrapping up "the ed show." joy, this has been a great event down here at the essence festival. what's it mean to you and our team? >> first of all, i have to say the essence festival, love ed schultz. definitely. it's great seeing people have a great time, great food, nothing better than new orleans. hey, now with cupid, a little asean, who is the future president of the united states. and it's just been terrific. >> all right. let's end gigging out to "the cupid shuffle." >> let's go. let's go. >> five, six, five to the right,
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